Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song I'm a Song
Matt Lucas* The Peepin' Tom Matt Gets Blue
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Green Rye Ukrainian Pops
Matt Lucas* Herpes Blues Matt Gets Blue
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Twins War War War
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Late Night Movies I'm a Song
Priscilla* Rollins Goody Goody Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Come Sit Down and Tell Me Everybody Needs It
Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir* Here Come the Hawks Here Come the Hawks b/w Here Come the Hawks (instrumental) (picture sleeve)
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Ill Wind And I Love Her
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along We the People
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars I Want a Girl Maple Sugar Two Step // I Want a Girl
Ellen McIlwaine Pinebo (My Story) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Zambonis* Boom Boom Boom To Bleed Black and Gold
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Oscar* McLollie The Way You Do the Things You Do ST
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Oscar* McLollie Buried Alive ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra I See Your Face Before Me And I Love Her
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Are You Confused Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Mike* Ferro Soldier In The Rain Bridges b/w Soldier In The Rain
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* O Moon Do Not Shine Ukrainian Pops
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Dils* Sound of the Rain (Le sond de la pluit) Made In Canada
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Devil Woman I'm a Song
Buddy Knox Devil Woman ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Theme For the Countless And I Love Her
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Can't Eat Shirley Lewis Show Band
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Dave Gordon & Kay* I Love That Hockey Team I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Albert Jones* Hussle Disco The Facts of Life
Ellen McIlwaine Billy Gene Fear Itself
Alpha Centauri Hard Life ST
Oscar* McLollie She's a Child Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child
Albert Jones* You Stole My Love The Facts of Life
Aarons And Ackley* L.A. You And I
Aarons And Ackley* Bonnie Blue You And I
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) (There's a Lot of Different Kind of) People in the World Love Serenade
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Verkhovyna Our Liitle World Ukrainian Pops
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Aarons And Ackley* Almost Five O'Clock You And I
Ellen McIlwaine Toe Hold Honky Tonk Angel
Cal* Bostic Just a Boy And Girl in Love (Doug Randle) Introducing...
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Ernie* Smith To Behold Jah To Behold Jah
Ursa Major* In My Darkest Hour ST
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Zambonis* Cool Shots (Theme Song) To Bleed Black and Gold
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Buddy Knox Teasable, Pleasable You ST (mono)
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* You're My Honey I'm a Song
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Hopak Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ellen McIlwaine Don't You Have any Love in Your Heart? Ellen McIlwaine
Loni Gamble It's You ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Moolit Night Ніч Яка Місячна Ukrainian Pops
Jack Holland You Don't Have to Love Me The Eyes of a Dreamer
Alpha Centauri One Night at a Time ST
Priscilla* Rollins Feel So Good Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Nothing Left to be Desired Everybody Needs It
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Joe* Glazer This Land is Your Land A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Zambonis* Hockey Marlee To Bleed Black and Gold
Ernie* Smith Take Your Time To Behold Jah
Matt Lucas* I'm Movin' On The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On
Priscilla* Rollins Mama You Treat Your Daughter Mean Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Oscar* McLollie So Pleasing Loving You So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Moanin Shirley Lewis Show Band
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Gospel Medley: Swing Low Chariot; Amen; Michael Row Your Boat Ashore; He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine I Want Whacha Got (Boston Song) Everybody Needs It
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Grandpa Tell Me One More Story I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River Fear Itself
Happy Dolls Hello Dolly Show Album No. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Reapers Harvest Ukrainian Pops
Country Mcdonald Joe* The March Of The Dead War War War
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* The Lady is a Tramp Amist the Black Eyes
Matt Lucas* Vibrator Blues Matt Gets Blue
Ernie* Smith Money Can't Buy Life Skareggae
Aarons And Ackley* You And I You And I
Ellen McIlwaine Crawling Kingsnake Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) We the People
Nelson* Riddle Moving Ahead British Columbia Suite
Priscilla* Rollins Sad Movies Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Shake a Hand Amist the Black Eyes
Matt Lucas* Massage Parlour Blues Matt Gets Blue
Jack Holland The Time Or the Place The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Till You're Loving Me Again I'm a Song
Matt Lucas* Leave the Light On Baby Matt Gets Blue

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Givin' Up (The One I Love) b/w I Need You

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* - Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

Kyiv, 🇺🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Givin' Up (The One I Love) b/w I Need You

Shirley Lewis Show Band

Amist the Black Eyes

You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

45-Shirley Granger - Givin Up the One I Love VINYL 02

Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

The Revelaires (3)

The Revelaires (2)

The Revelaires

The Revelaires You're So Wrong (1)

The Revelaires Great Pre (1)

Matt Gets Blue

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

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